The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-23

Nsss, - eAceeoinsiy ut.tcult TO render into
English. 1t was divided into two PARTS
one descriptive Or %dctinatory, and the otl,c,
pcrsonal-and, as nearly as l can re1acm.
Der, ran as follows:
Love Is like a flower In tho desert.
1t Is like the alec OF Arabia that blooms hut
once and dies; it Blooms &, the salt emptiness
OF life, and the brightness OF its beauty ia SCI
upon the waste as Il star is set upon a storm.
1t hath the sun above that is tic spirit, and
about It blows The cir of its " divinity.
AT the cchcing off step, Love blooms, L cay:
! say Love blooms, and bends her beauty down
to him who passeth by.
He pluckoti it, yea, he pluckcth tho rcd cup
thnt Is 1ull Oh honey, ana buurcth it AWAY
away across the discretionary till the f,oWcr
be wit'iered-sway till tho desert be done.
dcrIcss el Ire. ""'
Itsrs mower is Love!
There is only one fixed star in tho midst OF
our wandering.
That star is love!
night.
That hope is Love.
,,, All else is false. An else is shadow moTins
Who shall say what ID tho weight or tho
measure of Lover
It is born of tho flesh. it dwcl.ct., in the
Spirit. From each does itdraw its comfort.
For beauty it is rs Il star.
Many are its shapes, bus nil ere beautiful.
1 anu none Know HiiGtC the StNr ICSS, OF The i.yr-
lion where it shall set.
Then turning to Leo. and laying her
hand upon his shoulder, she went on in Il
fuller and moro triumphant tone, and in
balanced sentences that gradually sweiled
from idealizcd prose into pure ard nlajes-
tic verse:
Long have ! loved thee, OH. my love; yet has
Long have ! waited for thee, and behold my
reward is at land-is here!
Far away i saw thee once, md thou vast
taken from ne.
Then i'll a grave sowcd I the seed of paticncc.
and shonc upon it with the sun or hope, mud
Watereu 1t with tears of repentance, and
brcathed on ii with the bycatii OF my ki,oNl-
edge. and now. 10! it has sprung yp and
borne druit. 10! out OF the grave hath it
sprung. Yes, from among the dry bones ana
ashes of the dead.
have waited. and NY reward is wit,s me;
brought back 10 nc him that v.s deal.
Therefore do | rejoice. Tor i.ils is tic future.
Greene ire HE paths that we shall f.cad across
tho everlasting meadows.
The hour l.; Ut hand. Night hath fed away
Into the valleys.
SOFT shall We lie, my love, aud easy shall we
Crowned shall VIC BIO with tho diadam OF
kings.
niidsca shall they fall before our beauty and
OUT tiiitsut.
From timc unto inc shall our greatness
thunder Gil.
Rolling like u chariot through tho dust OF
endless days.
Laughing snail we speed in our victory ana
poinn.
Laiiahing like the Daylight as lic leaps along
the liiils.
Onward. still triumphant, to o triumph ever
new.
Onward, in our power, TO power unattaincl!
Onward, never weary, clad with splondorf for
q robe!
Till accomplished lie our fate, and the nigh:
Is rushing down.
She paused i'll her strange and most
thrilling allegorical chant, OF which l am.
unfortunately, only able To give the bar
den, and that feebly enough, and the said:
"Percliance thou dost not believe my
word, Notwithstanding thou think
est that l do delude thee, and that / have
not lived these many years, and that thou
hast rot been born again TO me. Now will
1 show thee, and thee also, my Holly, who
dost stand staring there as though of q
truth thou hadst taken root in this uiisinu.
ly soil. Bear each one of you q lamp, and
follow after me whittier I shall lead ye."
Without pnusing to t,iIk-indeel, speak
ing for myself, I had almost abandoned
] the function in circumstances under which
to think seemed absolutely useless, silce
thought fell hourly helpless against Il black
wall of woIder-wc took the lamps and
| followed her. Going to the end Of her
"boudoir," she raised q curtain, and re-
vealed q little stair of the sort that was SO
! common in these dim caves of Eor. AS
we hurried down the stair I observed that
the steps were worn in the center to such
an extent that solnc of them had been re-
duced from seven and a half inches, at
Which I guessed their original height, to
be about three and q half. Now, SIS all the
other steps that 1 had seen in tho caves
had been practically unyorn, as was to be
expected, seeing that the only traffic that
ever passed upon til g. was that OF those
who bore u fresh burden to the tomb, this
fact struck my notice with that curious
pertinacity with which little things do
strike us when orr minds arc absolutely
overwhelmed with q rush Of powerful SEN
satioas, beaten fat, IS it were, /lilsa q sea
beneath a hurricane, SO that every/l little
object on tho surface stands up like @
mountain. AT the bottom Of the staircase
I stood and stared at the worn steps, end
She, turning, say me.
"Wonderest thou whose are the feet tina.
have worn awny the rock, my HollyS" she
asked. "Bal.old! they are mine-cveu
mino own light feet. I can remember
when the stairs were fresh and level, but
for two thousand years have I gone dowr
hither day by day, and see, my sandals
have worn out the solid rock"
Inlade no answer, but / do not thlnh
that anyti,iny that 1 had heard or seer
brought home to- my limited understand
ing SO clear q sense OF this BEINGS over
wleilning antiquity as that hard rock hol
lowed o by her soft, white feet. How
many millions Of times must she have
passed up and down that stair to bring
about such II result?
Tho stair.l led to q tunnel, and a fewpaces
down the tunnel was one of tie usual cur.
tain-hung doorways, u glance Mt which
told me that i. was the sane w!.ers 1 had
been q witness of That terrible scene by tile
leaping flame. j recognized the pattern Of
the curtain, and the sight Of it brought the
whole event siyidly before my eyes, and
made me t.a,nble. even at its memory,
Ayesha entered tac tomb Cor it was Q
tomb, and @ followed lier-l, for one, TO
joicing that the mystery of the place was
about TO be cleared up, and yet afraid Il
face its solution.